Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-12 Thread MatMan (sent by Nabble.com)
Just so you know, you're not the only one wondering about this. I just stumbled accross this website while searching for an answer to the very same problem. I'm trying to cut out a small circular image from a larger photo to use as an accent image on a website. I actually need to do this many,

RE: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-06 Thread Gert Blij
Thanks Harish, -Original Message- From: Harish Narayanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 05 January 2006 04:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question) Gert Blij wrote: Basically what I said

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-05 Thread Harish Narayanan
Gert Blij wrote: Basically what I said was that while the rectangular select works fine, all the others don't. When I select with Oval, Hand draw or Intelligent scissors, the cut from the Gimp looks perfect, but when I paste into OpenOffice Writer it is always a rectangular picture the width and

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-05 Thread Vytautas P.
This would work only for formats, that support transparency - gif, png. Others would replace transparency with white, or with background colour. On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:56:08 +0200, Harish Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Blij wrote: Basically what I said was that while the

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew
Gert Blij wrote: Hi, I am (very) new to The Gimp and not a graphic designer. I just want to use some basic stuff and I am getting into it quite nicely. However, for the life of me I can't find something that I reckon is very basic. I want to cut out part of an image (rectangular, round or

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-04 Thread Harish Narayanan
Gert Blij wrote: I want to cut out part of an image (rectangular, round or oval, polygon, etc) and copy and paste it to somewhere else. How do I do that? The instructions Andrew provided will work nicely within the same image window or multiple images within the GIMP. Unfortunately, if you